Attention Quote by Robert Musil

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals…

— Paul Brunton

“In the process of decluttering things in my life, I was peeling off the layers of my past that no longer mattered to my…

— Lisa J. Shultz

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

— Marquis de Sade

“Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.”

— Assegid Habtewold

Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts.

— Louise Hay

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't…

— John Marsden

“Redefine your happiness and things that bothered you deeply will no longer matter. Things out of your reach will lose importance and those within…

— M.B. Watson

“When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and…

— St. Mark the Ascetic

Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was…

— Mati Unt

“When i spend too much time in my head, focused on things in the past or things in the future... when i lose sight…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can…

— Alcoholics Anonymous